http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/...rf/perftips.asp
"Use Fixed-Size Tables
Tables are a great way of organizing information. Before CSS positioning was implemented in Internet Explorer 4.0, many HTML authors even used tables to lay out elements on their page. Now, if you're still using tables to achieve the latter, you ought to be using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) positioning instead. Internet Explorer 5 offers even better performance to those who have embraced CSS. "
Hmm
